-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CVE-2008-4308: Tomcat information disclosure vulnerability Severity: Low Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Tomcat 4.1.32 to 4.1.34 Tomcat 5.5.10 to 5.5.20 Tomcat 6.0.x is not affected The unsupported Tomcat 3.x, 4.0.x and 5.0.x versions may be also affected Note: Although this vulnerability affects relatively old versions of Apache Tomcat, it was only discovered and reported to the Apache Tomcat Security team in October 2008. Publication of this issue was then postponed until now at the request of the reporter. Description: Bug 40771 (https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40771) may result in the disclosure of POSTed content from a previous request. For a vulnerability to exist the content read from the input stream must be disclosed, eg via writing it to the response and committing the response, before the ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occurs which will halt processing of the request. Mitigation: Upgrade to: 4.1.35 or later 5.5.21 or later 6.0.0 or later Example: See original bug report for example of how to create the error condition. Credit: This issue was discovered by Fujitsu and reported to the Tomcat Security Team via JPCERT. References: http://tomcat.apache.org/security.html Mark Thomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJpdGRb7IeiTPGAkMRAkK+AKC1m5WunqOmwuFYSYEoASF/AokgDQCffmxM U3IdbfYNVtRIzCW5XTvhv2E= =rJGg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
